[Pharmboy]

Here' the Top 20:

1-Henery Kissinger
2-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
3-George Will
4-Lawrence H. Summers
5-William J. Bennett
6-Robert B. Reich
7-Sidney Blumenthal (gag)
8Arthur R. Miller
9-Salman Rushdie
10-William Safire
11-George Orwell
12-Alan M. Dershowitz (2x gag)
13-Toni Morrison (oy)
14-Antonin Scalia
15-Tom Wolfe
16-Norman Mailer
17-George Bernard Shaw
18-Vaclav havel
19-William Kristol
20-William F. Buckley, Jr.

[Pharmboy]

Ping*

And nice to have you back.

[newzjunkey]

19-William Kristol

"Weakly Standards" Bill Kristol?

[veronica]

Toni Morrison and Blumenthal rate higher than Scalia and WF Buckley? LOL...Buckley should be in the top 5. If not number 1. He practically invented the modern Conservative movement. PLUS he's an author, magazine publisher, had the longest running show on PBS, on and on. Scalia is too low on the list too.

[headsonpikes]

Not enough (gag)s. ;^)

I hope this exercise was satirical; such a reductionist model is laughable.

What a snapshot of the emaciated state of contemporary intellectual life!